Improvement in wash-boilers



EDWARD SEELEY, or SCRANTON, PENNSYLVANIA. Letters Patent No. 85,031,dated December 15, 1868` I To all whom it 'may concewt: t

Be it known that I, EDWARD SEELEY, of Scranton, county of Luzerne, Stateof Pennsylvania, have invented a new and'improved Wash-Boiler; and Ihereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact descriptionthereof, which will enable those skilled in the art to make and use thesame, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making apart ofthis speciiication, in which- Figure 1 is a perspective view.

Figure 2 is a vertical longitudinal section thereof, showing thecontracting passages through which the water rises, and also theaperture through which it is discharged.

Figure 3 is a vertical transverse section on line :c :c of fig. 1,showing the dcecting-plate, and the chamber through which the waterascends to the dischargeaperture.

Similar letters of reference indicatecorresponding parts.

This invention relates to boilers inwhich clothes are washed by means ofjets of water, and by the force of steam, which is generated thereinwhile the process of cleaning them is being performed; and

t consists'in the construction ofthe delecting-platey arrangement withreference to the ascending-water,

passages; and, further, in the construction of the passages throughwhich the water ascends from the'bottorn of the boiler to the surface ofthe contents of such boiler, as will be more fully described hereafter.

Experience has demonstrated the fact that the eiiicicncy of this classof boilers or washers depends, to a great extent, upon the force ormomentum which is given to the jets of water which fall upon the surfaceof the clothes while being cleaned, and my' invention is designed,amongst other things, to remedy a defect existing in those boilers nowin use, in this respect, by providing-a decctingplate at the bottom ofsuch boiler, and arranging it in such a manner that only so much watershalll come in actual contact with the bottom of the boiler as isnecessary to preserve it iiom injury, and to furnishA suliicient steamto induce the upward flow of the bulk of the water, the direction towhich is of the proper dimensions to nearly fill the boiler in the- Adirection ofits greatest length, while its edges pass under the loweredge of the plates C, which form the 4water-ascending passages, but donot touch the sides of the boiler, but terminate at a distance therefromsutcient to leave a passage for the steam which is generated below suchplate to ascend, in doing `which it passes the edge of the plate withgreat rapidity, thus inducing or compelling the water to take the samedirection, which operation is facilitated by the construction of theplate, and by its peculiar coniiguration.

It will be observed that the arrangement of the above-described plate issuch, that, when in operation, very little water can settle upon thebottom oi' the boiler, by which means .the space below thedeflectingplate is converted into a steam-chamber.

' C C' are plates, ofmetal, which, together with that portion of theboi-ler which they cover, form the ascending-passagcs for the water.They consist of plates or sheets, which, at their ends and at their topedges, are soldered or otherwise secured to the plates or sides a'of theboiler, in such a manner as to leave the passage, through which thewater ascends, a gradually-decreasing one,from its bottom to its top.These plates extend from near the bottom of the boiler, as shown in iig.3, upwards for about vone-third that of the height of the boiler, forwhich distance they form but one passage orv chamber, but at which pointthey terminate, and for the remainder of the distance they are dividedinto the form of pyramidal chambers or passages, through cach of whichwater passes to the apertures t a., where it is discharged to thesurface of the' contents of the'boiler.

D is the cover of the boiler, which is, ofthe usual construction, and isheld in its closed position by clasps or buttons, in any convenientmanner.-

E is a rim,'formed upon the top edge of the boiler, which is soconstructed as to form a trough or conduit entirely around-the upper'edge thereof, into which any waterwhich may be forced up around theedge of vis for the purpose of conducting water from such conduit to theboiler.

G are buttons or clasps, for securing the cover D of the boiler inposition when in use. They consist of ypieces oi' metal, hinged to theupper edge of the boiler in such a way, that, when turned down in themanner shown in the drawings, they rest upon and hold the -coverincontact with the boiler but they may be turned up, and thus relieve suchcover, and allow it to be readily removed.

Having thus described my invention,

lVhat I claim, and desire to secure byI Letters Patent, is

1. The dome-shaped deiiectingplate, with its up- -Wardly--inclinededges, substantially as shownand de- 3. The within-describedconstruction ofthe passages scribed. for the ascending Water.

2. The arrangement of the deectiug-plate B, with In testimony whereof7 Ihave signed my name to reference to the plates C CTzuid to the platesforming this specification, in the presence of two subscribing i theWalls of the boiler, :is acousequenoe of which, only witnesses.

a, small amountr of water is allowed to pass below suchy Witnesses: K E.SEELEY. deeoting-plate when the boiler is in use, substantially D. P.HOLLOWAY, as shown and described. C. F. OLAUSEN.

